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Airline pilots, flight attendants and other workers based at O'Hare International Airport banded together Tuesday to warn that alleged unfair subsidies to Middle East airlines by their governments will cost jobs in Chicago and across the nation. However, one U.S. travel group said the foreign carriers are good for Chicago. Workers from United, American and Southwest airlines, which together employ some 25,000 in Chicago, said during a news conference Tuesday that every international widebody aircraft route lost will cost 800 airline jobs. Subsides are like baseball's "steroids or corked bats that are being used by the Gulf carriers to tilt the playing field to their...

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